ASNA last week launched a new migration tool called Monarch, which, the company says, can help iSeries shops move their RPG applications to Microsoft .NET in a matter of weeks, as opposed to the months or years such a migration could entail. With Monarch and existing ASNA language and database tools, the company says it now offers everything for a whole or partial migration of RPG applications to .NET, and an upgrade path to service-oriented architectures.

ASNA has been in the business of moving RPG applications to Windows–and making Windows developers out of iSeries developers–for some time now. The company’s

The recent spate of hurricanes in the Caribbean has taken a horrible toll on the area. People and businesses are still recovering from the sudden onslaught of big storms in August and September, while at the same time preparing for potentially more storms, as eight weeks still remain in the hurricane season. For data center operations, the storms have highlighted the importance of good disaster recovery procedures, as these Maximum Availability customers attest to.

Every region of the planet carries has its own unique geographical peculiarities, dangers, and disaster recovery scenarios. If your home or business is located in the

Billing department are the intended users of two new modules that Image Integration Systems announced last month. One of the new modules, called Pass-Through-Billing, helps users to turn vendor invoices around so they can bill their customers more quickly, while another, called AutoVoucher, eliminates the manual entry of vendor information in batch invoice runs. Both of the new modules plug into the company’s Windows-based DocuSphere content management and workflow software, which is used at hundreds of OS/400 shops.

You may not have heard about Image Integration Systems, based in Perrysburg, Ohio, but that doesn’t mean it’s new. IIS has been

OS/400 shops that need to distribute objects to hundreds of iSeries servers will be delighted to hear about the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s Remote Software Facility. RSF Version 7.2 features a new broadcast distribution option that enables a single iSeries to send OS/400 objects, libraries, and IFS objects to any number of other iSeries in the same amount of time it would take to transmit to just one of them.

Bug Busters has been helping OS/400 shops and ISVs streamline object distribution for years with its flagship RSF utility, which is used by thousands of OS/400